I appreciate your willingness to at least try to clean up "your corner" of Steemit. I do hope that it doesn't just become a cost against your wellbeing in using your voting power as a down flag rather than as an up, but at the same time, it seems that unless there gets to be some way of disciplining "bad" behavior, nothing much will change. The macro issue seems to be "how to encourage / enforce socially BENEFICIAL behaviors in a decentralized system?" I've chosen to attempt to encourage "beneficial behaviors" from a tack of spiritual formation / character development and feel its the part I can play, but feel like if my "stick" were sized a bit differently, I likely would use it more akin to your description to try to reshape how people functioned from an external stimulus as well. (I fear my paltry .03 doesn't do a whole lot in sending much of a message.)

I'm really curious to see what your tack may produce, because I cannot help but think it will in truth both require "interior boundary setting" (the arena I'm trying to encourage) AS WELL as external reinforcement to begin to alter the course of this big ole' Steemit ship.

I wish you nothing but the best in your efforts as I am certain that if you and others (who happen to have the kind of clout that may actually be felt... something about "when in doubt, get a bigger hammer" comes to mind) were to begin to create a better expectation for normalized behavior, we will ALL benefit tremendously.

(Incidentally... I was watching the video you are referencing just last night, but only got half-way through... you'll see me on that comment section after I've wrapped up... it is an absolute gem, with so much worth thinking through! Jonathan Pageau is one smart / insightful cookie.)